Milan – Italian football was left reeling Tuesday as a dismal 0-0 draw against Sweden condemned the Azzurri to miss their first football World Cup in more than half a century.

ROME - The Borghese Gallery, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of its reopening, is staging an exhibition that explores its historic ties with the Baroque sculptor, Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

PARIS - The Assyrian Nimrud bull, destroyed by Isis in March 2015, has been recreated by the cultural heritage thinktank Incontro di Civiltà under the l

VENICE - Thieves robbed the Venetian Beinnale museum of two small Jeff Koons sculptures Sunday night.

ROME - The Latin phrase “Genius Loci” has come to mean the particular atmosphere of a place or its “spirit.” The innovative art project headed by MiBACT under this name, featuring work by

ROME - While my co-workers slogged away, proofing articles on Italy’s corruption, I slid out of my chair and took sanctuary in the multi-sensory cinema experience of the Time Elevator in

NEW YORK - In just a short walk around Broadway, you will immediately notice a large number of spaces for rent. These are mostly restaurants.

ROME - Newsreels of Hitler’s speeches are frightening, while those of Mussolini, with his jutting jaw and pouting mouth, are

ROME - “To have a penis is to be chained to a madman” wrote Sophocles more than 2500 years ago. He was right then and he is still right today.

FLORENCE- Gucci has taken a bold step forward in renouncing fur for their Spring-Summer 2018 collection. Bizzarri has spoken about fur being “out of fas

ROME - Discovering good narration on ancient women is like finding a female with which Zeus wasn’t enamoured: extremely rare, and when finally sought, perpetually coated in tropes.

ROME - My phone died on the way to 6° Senso, I forgot the name of the road and embarked in an aimless meandering through the streets between the Spanish steps and Piazza del Popolo.

ROME - At university I drank gin and tonic, discerning only the drinkable from the undrinkable.

 ROME -- Kevin Murray is an Australian painter who has lived and worked in Rome for most of his life.

COSENZA - On Friday, the Premio de la Cultura Mediterranea celebrated the eleventh year of its inception with an awards ceremony filled with fanfare; it

ROME - The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Fellow’s Programme operates in a manner counter to the employment laws of some member states, a well placed FAO source contends.

ROME– A press conference was held Tuesday in advance of the partial opening of the fourth and fifth levels of the Colosseum after more than 40 years of closure.

ROME - The annual monologue show of the English Theatre of Rome was delightfully more creative than the title suggests.

ROME – The National Gallery of Modern Art emerges into view from the gardens of Villa Borghese, a stunning building of classical grandeur.

ROME - The Palladium Theatre, once a historical cinema, still reverberates with the elegant charm of the silent era.

NAPLES- This week has not been a good one for Italian public education.